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Crisis



‘of Edinburgh, also remained at
-home.

The directors of the Delaware
Group were faced with the task

of deporting forty-three students
from France, in“competition with
some 9800 other Americans. The
four of us who were in the Dela-
ware Group look. back upon our
-month in France as one spent in a
more or less ‘constant state jof
evacuation.

The first week, after a brief
glimpse of Paris, was taken up at
‘Tours in tentatively unpacking our
trunks, arranging our cqurses, and
learning how to carry on ‘desultory
conversations in French. As Tours
was a mobilization center, we soon
became accustomed to seeing troops
anywhere and everywhere. It
seemed surprisingly easy to believe
‘that the world was merely passing
through another September “crise.”

By Friday, with the news of Hit-
ler’s attack on Poland, the “pre-
cautionary measure” of evacuating
the group from Tours suddenly
seemed not only advisable, but
necessary. . On Sunday we were
taken, in the last unrequisitioned
bus to be found, to the Breton sea-
port town of St. Nazaire. War
seemed ludicrously remote and im-
possible’ as we drove through the
peaceful and beautiful province. of
Plantagenet Anjou and through
tiny, inactive Breton villagdés. The
actual declarations of war, when
we learned of them, sounded ab-
_surd and utterly incomprehensible.

The next three days were spent
in St. Nazaire, a small and sinister
edition of Marseilles, with a rather



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terrifying blackout as, the only
near-approach to reality. \We were
they moved to St. Brevin L’Ocean,

a seaside village nearby, to await
news of a boat home. After ten
days of provisional classes, sun
bathing, swimming and bicycling,
we set off for Bordeaux, once more
ensconced in practically priceless
buses, to await the sailing of the
Roosevelt and the Manhattan.

Bordeaux contained, among other
things, an almost infinite number
of wild-eyed, penniless Americans,
laying continual seige to the con-
sulate and the harried officials of
the United States Lines. Happily,
we were excluded from that un-
fortunate group. Our directors,
’with vast efficiency and patience,
had obtained for us comparatively
luxt.ious accommodations at the
Cité Universitaire and our pas-
sages, split up. between the Roose-
velt and- the Manhattan, were
finally and definitely assured.

When the Manhattan sailed, dis-
playing large and : comforting
American flags on her sides, she
carried, esides a portion of the
Delaware Group, a fantastic assort-
ment of“people. Toscanini, Stra-
vinsky, Lord Beaverbrook, Helena
Rubenstein,.a mélange of chorus
girls and cowboys and some 1800
others were crammed into every
available nook and cranny.

The experience, as one looks
back on it, seems a curiously de-
tached and unreal one. It was at
times shockingly easy to realize
that the country was in a state
of war; at other times it required
an almost absurd stretch of the
imagination. Whatever one’s reac-
tions, it was impossible not to carry
away a very clear impression of
the formidable courage and deter-
mination of the French people.







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New Course Covers

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Four Departments Combined
To Givyg;General Surveys.
Of the Period :



Last spring four undergraduates
arbitrarily descended upon four
members of the faculty and asked

for a course on the 18th century.
Their plans were vague, other than
that the cotirse was to cover the
history, philosophy, economics, lit-
erature, and science of the period,
and that it would proceed through
student reports in the various fields,
and conclude without an examina:
tion.

Th’'s 18th century course has now
materialized/under the supervision
of Miss Caroline Robbins, associate
Professor of History; Mrs. Grace
DeLaguna, Professor of Philoso-
phy; Miss Mildred Northrup, assis-
tant Professor of Economics, “and
Miss K. Laurence Stapleton, assis-
tant Professor of English.

The course will cover the period
opening with the publication of
Newton’s Principia, covering the
spread of the doctrine of “enlight-
eyment,” and closing with the out-
break of the French Revolution.

During the first semester, empha-
sis will be placed upon the material
background of the time and will in-
clude such topics as the extent of
geographical knowledge, the state
of education, and the‘ organization



Much has already been said on the
subject; but such incredible forti-
tude in the face of catastrophe
cannot be forgotten in a hurry by
anyone who has witnessed it.







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New Summer School



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- Non-compulsory courses, such as
political philosophy, were also off-
ered for ‘those interested. Many
of the students had had little sci-
entific training and were shocked
to hear a professor state the opin-
ion that God did not create Adam
from the dust. Several refused
to believe that man still has the
vestiges of a tail.

\The students were separated into
three unit8 when attending classes.



of economic life. For the first
week’s assignment, half-hour re-
ports are to be given ‘on: ‘Daniel
Defoe’s A Tour Through Great
Britain; William Dampier’s Voy-
age to the New World; and ‘on the
“orand tour’ as portrayed by sev-
eral English and French writers.

Those now taking the course,
which meets from four to six on
Tuesday. afternoons, are: B. Auch-
ineloss, D. Caulkins, E. Cheney, E.
Emery, M. Kirk, K. Putnam, L.
Sharp, all’’40, and L. Rankin and
V. Sherwood, ’41.





Engagement
Peggy Lou Jaffer, ’41, to
Hal. Sykes. .







The teachers, were also divided, the
same teacher \diving instruction to
one group of students all summer,
Since there. are more women work-
ers in the C. I. O. than there are
in the A. F. of L., the larger pro-

portion of the students were C. I=

O. members. _

Extra-curricdlar activities were
very popular, particularly theatri-
cals, swimming, ‘and exploring the
There was also a
students
taught the fundamentals of design-
ing posters and making picture
graphs. On Mondays and Thurs-
days teas were given for outside
peakers, among them Mrs. Frank-
in D. Roosevelt. At these meet-
ngs social problems were discussed.

Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Con-
necticut, and Bryn Mawr. colleges
sent undergraduaté delegates to the
school. Anne Louise Axon, ’40,
and Elizabeth Aiken, ’39, repre-
sented Bryn Mawr.

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